Title

Presenting HINARI and Research4Life

to Visitors from Eligible Countries

[Dec. 2010]

HINARI Outline Background Eligibility Partners Contents Registration Training materials Optional: Research4Life

HINARI Access to Research in Health programme provides free or very low cost online access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local, not-for-profit institutions in developing countries.

HINARI was launched in January 2002 for “free access” countries (Band 1).

In Jan. 2003 it was launched to “low-cost" countries (Band 2).

Background

http://www.who.int/hinari/

Eligibility (01 2012)• Institutions in countries included in the United

Nations Least Developed Country (LDCs) List; an HDI (human development index) less than 0.63; or GNI (gross national income) per capita at or below $1600 may be eligible for free access (Band 1/Group A)

• Institutions in countries with either a GNI per capita less than $5000 or HDI at or below 0.67 may be eligible to pay a fee of $1000 per year (Band 2/Group B) • Some publishers opt out of this option and do not allow access to

their journals

• For details, see www.who.int/hinari/eligibility/en/

Eligibility (2)Eligible categories of institutions are:

national universities research institutes professional schools (medicine, nursing, pharmacy,

public health, dentistry) teaching hospitals government: ministries and agencies national medical libraries locally based non-governmental agencies

All permanent and visiting faculty, staff members and students are entitled to access and can obtain the institutional User Name and Password.

Partners Major Publishers

Elsevier Science Springer Wiley-Blackwell Sage Taylor & Francis Lippincott/Williams &

Wilkins BioOne Oxford University Press Nature Publishing Other science/technical/

medical publishers

http://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/partners.php

Program Partners World Health Organization – WHO Yale University Library International Association of

Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers – STM

Microsoft Food and Agriculture Org. – FAO United Nations Environment

Programme – UNEP Information Training and Outreach

Centre for Africa National Library of Medicine Mann Library/Cornell University Librarians Without Borders/MLA

Contents

Registrationhttp://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/registration.php

http://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/browse_institutions.php

Registrations (2)

Training Materials

http://www.who.int/hinari/training/en/

Training Materials (2)

Additional Slides

You may consider to add the following slides on Research4Life to your presentation.

Research4Life is the collective name for HINARI and its Sister Programmes: AGORA and OARE.

http://www.research4life.org

AGORA(Access to Global Online Research in

Agriculture)

Online portal to access information on Agriculture and related sciences

Coordinated by FAO/Cornell University, USA

Free/Low cost to 105 countries 2500 journals / 75 publishers >1800 registered institutions Data: 07 2011http://www.aginternetwork.org/en/

OARE (Online Access to Research in the

Environment)

Online portal to access environmental informationCoordinated by UNEP/Yale UniversityFree/Low cost to 105 countriesOver 3900 journals / 75 publishers and scholarly

societiesEnvironment and related sciences1400 registered institutionsData: 07 2011

http://www.oaresciences.org/en/

Thank You

The HINARI TeamWorld Health OrganizationAvenue Appia, 201211 Geneva 27SwitzerlandFax: +41 22 791 41 50hinari@who.intwww.who.int/hinari

Updated 2011 09